With plenty of fresh strawberries in the market, this teatime strawberry cake recipe is a great way to put them to use.
The flavour of fresh strawberries has the right mix of sweetness and tartness – perfect for desserts such as no-bake strawberry cake or making my favourite 3 ingredients strawberry jam.
Apart from fresh strawberries, you need regular pantry staples – flour, sugar, olive oil, vanilla, and egg to make this delectable cake.
Baking With Berries
This teatime cake can be easily made with fresh berries – blueberry, raspberry, cranberry, or strawberry. While baking with berries, remember that the berry’s skin may be particularly tart, but it might be juicy and sweet. Hence, taste the berry first and then adjust the sugar in the batter accordingly. TIP: You may think that berries layered on the cake would dry out while baking, but the opposite is true. Heat causes the berries to soften and release juices. So by the end of the baking, they become wonderfully squishy soft and jam-like with caramelized edges.
My Tried & True Tips
Ensure all the ingredients are at room temperature, especially egg and milk, before preparing the batter. Otherwise, cold ingredients from the fridge might affect the cake’s texture. Measure all the ingredients correctly. Baking is not at all about intuitions. Do not over-mix the cake batter. Once everything is combined, keep your hands away from the batter. Mixing for too long is not going to give you a soft cake. It does quite the opposite. Lastly, overbaking the cake is a serious crime (just joking). Always perform the toothpick test before deciding if the cake is ready. For microwave convection users, check your cake 5 minutes earlier than the recipe’s suggested time. And this trick always helps to get the perfectly baked cake.
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Recipe Variations
Eggless Cake: use ¼ cup plain Greek yogurt or a thick curd instead of egg in the recipe. Try my eggless chocolate cake. It’s pure chocolate bliss! Gluten-Free Cake: substitute all-purpose flour with almond flour for a delectable, nutty strawberry cake. Strawberry Sheet Cake: similarly, prepare the batter and bake it in a 9×13-inch sheet pan. Don’t forget to layer the strawberries on top before baking.
Cake Decoration
Strawberry Cake looks fabulous on its own. To make it more inviting, you can:
layer the cake with whipped cream and top with fresh strawberries.dust with icing sugar to keep it classiccombine 1 cup strawberry puree with 1 cup whipped cream and layer this pink ganache to decorate the cakeor drizzle organic strawberry sauce and enjoy!
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